Mideast power vacuum enables al-Qaida BEIRUT - The images of recent days have an eerie familiarity, as if the horrors of the past decade were being played back: masked gunmen of al-Qaeda recapturing the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi, where so many U.S. soldiers died fighting them. Car bombs exploding amid the elegance of downtown Beirut. The charnel house of Syria's worsening civil war.
Jan. 4, 2014 - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Winston Churchill in BBC News Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime leader, called postwar Europe "a rubble heap, a charnel-house, a breeding-ground for pestilence and hate".
Kevin Baker in New York Times (Random House, $13.95.) This first novel, about the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, is "an absorbing, unsparing and beautifully written account of one young man's escape from the charnel house that Ireland became," Kevin Baker said in the Book...
Gerald Kaufman in guardian.co.uk Labour's Gerald Kaufman says the Gaza strip is now a "blood-spattered charnel house", and asks for categorical condemnation of the Israeli government for their "slaughter" of innocent Palestinians yesterday.